When your child is absent for any reason, please call the Davis Magnet 24-hour attendance line. Please include the child's name, teacher's name, your relationship to the student, and the reason for the absence. Thank you!

(First Friday of each month at 9:00 a.m., sign-in and meet at front office )

Emergency Procedures:

• Our highest priority is safety, learning comes next

• We will attempt to notify you of any emergency situation

• Phone call-out system

• Email via SchoolLoop

• In the event of an evacuation from the classrooms (earthquake for example), all students will assemble on the playground with the teachers and staff

• In the event of a major earthquake, parents would sign-out your children from playground assembly area (we need to account for all children)

• In the event that we evacuate the school grounds, we would go to CMMS/CMHS right next door

• The information on your child’s Emergency Card is our only way to contact you

• This is why keeping your contact information -- current and up-to-date -- on your child’s Emergency Card is so vitally important!

• Be sure to print legibly

• Some of the phone numbers and email addresses are impossible to read

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Recess and Lunchtime Expectations:

• Keep your hands, feet, and objects to yourself

• Use proper language

• Use proper manners

• Sit down at your lunch table until dismissed

• Eat your food, only. No trading food or taking food.

• Dispose of all of your own trash

• Any student can play any game (no excluding)

• Play games by the rules (no arguing)

• Use the big toy properly

• No gymnastics on big toy or anywhere on campus

• Follow directions the first time they are given

• With bell and/or whistle: Freeze, sit down or squat down.

• With bell and/or whistle: All games/activities are over.

• With second whistle: Walk back to line and sit down.

• Playground equipment should be placed back into buckets.

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Driving and Parking Tips/Advice:

Knowing that most of our students are car riders, please take a moment to read and follow these basic driving/parking/drop-off/pick-up directions:

Morning Drop-Off:

Main School Parking Lot:

Valet service for all students in grades K-6.Parents -- remain in your vehicle -- and keep moving forward as the cars ahead of you move up. The goal is always for the lead car to move all the way forward to the flag pole so that as many students as possible can exit their vehicles along the front curb.

Arriving at school, all students should report to the playground and sit down in their classroom line until the 8:15 bell rings.

After School Dismissal:

Kindergarten pick-up is done exclusively in the Bus Lane(older brothers and sisters should join their kindergarten sibling at the Bus Lane area for pick-up after school. Parents -- remain in your vehicle -- and keep moving forward as the cars ahead of you move up. The goal is always for the lead car to move all the way forward to the far end of the Bus Lane so that our valet service can load as many students as possible along the front curb in the Bus Lane.

Main School Parking Lot: Valet service for students in grades 1-6. Parents -- remain in your vehicle -- and keep moving forward as the cars ahead of you move up. The goal is always for the lead car to move all the way forward to the flag pole so that our valet service can load as many students as possible along the front curb.

Parking:

Park in legal parking places only. If our school parking lot is full, there is plenty of parking right next to the school at the TeWinkle Sports Complex.

Plenty of legal parking places are available along the street behind our school -- Presidio Square.

There are several potential advantages to parking off-campus.Exercise for you walking back and forth to pick up your child. On the way back to your vehicle, it gives you time to walk and talk with your child. This is a great time to ask your child about their day at school. Rather than asking your child, "What did you do at school today?" and then getting the standard response, "Nothing," I would suggest asking the open-ended questions I ask my three children each day:

"What was your favorite part about school today -- and recess, lunch, and going home -- don't count?"

"Tell me about something funny that happened at school today."

"Tell me something new that you learned today."

"Your chance to stump your dad, ask me any kind of question related to what you you learned today. Kind of like Jeopardy."

I would strongly suggest asking your child open-ended questions like these every single day. These lead to excellent conversations AND it builds your child's ability speak and listen, recall learning, and make real-world connections with their learning as you add your comments, perspectives, and life-experiences.